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Boris Johnson orders highest coronavirus restrictions for three quarters of the UK’s population to counter surge of new strain
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is ordering millions more people to live under the strictest COVID-19 restrictions from Thursday to counter a new variant of the virus that is spreading at a “sheer pace” across the country.
Key points:
- Restrictions announced by Boris Johnson will affect more than 44 million people
- The new measures come as cases continue to surge across the country
- The UK reported a further 981 deaths on Wednesday
Case numbers have risen sharply in Britain in the past two weeks, driven in part by a new strain that is up to 70 per cent more transmissible than the original.
The Government, which reported another 981 deaths from the virus in the past 24 hours, said three quarters of England’s population would be in the top tier of…
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